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An Apple AirTag has helped reunite a woman with her stolen property and put a burglar behind bars in the United Kingdom.The burglar entered a home via an unlocked door and stole the woman's bag and keys before making off with them. But what he didn't realize was that he had doomed himself thanks to the AirTag that he'd taken with him.The AirTag, which was on the woman's keys, was later used to track the burglar down to a nearby hotel.Nowhere to hideThe Northern Echo reports that the caper went down in the…

Threads, the Meta-owned Twitter clone that launched this week, will always be hindered by its own content guidelines. The app is dry at best, and at worst, leeching your personal data. With 30 million downloads in less than a day of its launch, Threads is poised to compete with Twitter’s sheer volume of users. Though countless text-based social platforms have dazzled users upon launch before fading to obscurity since Elon Musk’s takeover, Threads has the unique advantage of seamlessly integrating with Instagram.…

Commercial space travel shares plenty of similarities with deep sea tourism: wealthy customers, tight spaces, far-flung destinations and waivers that clearly warn people they're risking death by embarking on unregulated vehicles.As the world dissects what went wrong with the doomed OceanGate submersible vessel, the craft's lack of safeguards is raising alarms. The founder of the deep-sea tour group once called safety a “pure waste” and industry peers flagged the potentially “catastrophic” results of his “experimental”…

via Marvel Comics The doomsayers have been out in force proclaiming the end of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is nigh, but with Sony now having officially pulled Bad Bunny’s El Muerto from the release calendar, we can safely say that every franchise based on the comic book company’s back catalogue is well and truly doomed. To be fair, this both is and isn’t a shock at the same time, which sums up Sony’s Spider-Man Universe in microcosm. El Muerto was penciled in to hit theaters on January 12 of next year, a date…

Whereas you might have been able to write off Shazam! Fury of the Gods as an anomaly seeing as the sequel to one of the DCU’s best-reviewed and most profitable installments ended up losing a fortune after tanking in theaters, The Flash making the franchise zero-for-two in 2023 is not ideal. With a $55 million debut, the blockbuster praised by everyone from Tom Cruise and Stephen King to James Gunn and Jaden Smith severely fell below expectations, and a worldwide opening of $130 million in total is just as…

The last remnants of Virgin Orbit have been offloaded. Firefly Aerospace has agreed to buy the defunct satellite-launch company’s remaining assets for $3.8 million. Firefly’s purchase included the leftovers from a May auction that cleaned out most of the company’s possessions, netting $36 million in Virgin Orbit’s bankruptcy proceedings. Firefly’s purchase was reported in June 15th filings in a Delaware bankruptcy court (via SpaceNews). Firefly Aerospace’s purchased assets include inventory at two of Virgin Orbit’s former…

This challenges puts me in the strange position of being at odds with myself. After all, AI is technology, which I cover. At the same time, AI poses a grave threat to my livelihood.But that's not the thrust of this piece…at least not on the surface. Allow me to explain.Also: Generative AI is changing your technology career path. What to knowAI is a powerful, remarkable, game-changing tool that could be used for a lot of good. As AI is powered by insanely huge systems (and trained on massive troves of data), it will…

Universe doomed to evaporate? Stunning new claim on Stephen Hawking’s famous theory | Stock PhotoLegendary later scientist Stephen Hawking had given the world a theory on how black holes reach their death. In fact, he made the famous prediction in 1974, of black holes evaporating to their death. Now, a new study has made a stunning claim about our entire universe doomed to the same fate. The origin and the likely end of the universe are two of the biggest questions that astronomy is still to answer.…

A team of researchers has affirmed Stephen Hawking’s prediction about the evaporation of black holes via Hawking radiation, though they’ve provided a crucial modification. According to their research, the event horizon (the boundary beyond which nothing can escape a black hole’s gravitational pull) is not as important as previously believed in producing Hawking radiation. Instead, gravity and the curvature of spacetime play significant roles in this process. This insight extends the scope of Hawking radiation to all large…

via XYZ Films The prospect of the director behind The Expendables 4 overseeing an action-packed blockbuster that partners up Jackie Chan and John Cena sounds like genre junkie’s dream made reality, but Hidden Strike is doing a great job of hiding the fact it’s one of the most cursed productions to come along in a while. You might not be able to tell from watching the trailer, but the big budget adventure wrapped shooting all the way back in September of 2018. Even though it’s gotten a full-length promo at long…